Posted on 01/08/2015 3:27:56 PM PST by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he doesn't like being called "spineless" or a "squish" by critics, and he vowed to prove his mettle to lawmakers who bopposed his re-election earlier this week.
Boehner was re-elected Speaker of the House on Tuesday even as 25 members of his own Republican party declined to support him, the biggest such intra-party rebellion against a speaker candidate since 1859. His detractors, many of them on the right wing of his party, say Boehner is too prone to compromise with Democrats.
Boehner said that portrayal is false.
"During my years here when I voted, I have the eighth most conservative voting record in the Congress. And it does pain me to be described as spineless or a squish," he told reporters.
Since becoming speaker in 2011, Boehner has faced a series of internal challenges to his leadership, particularly on his handling of budget matters in which small-government Tea Party Republicans have demanded a more aggressive confrontation of President Barack Obama's agenda.
In 2013, Boehner warned against a government shutdown, but Tea Party lawmakers pushed for a showdown over Obama's healthcare law that resulted in a 16-day closure of the federal government.
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as he wipes off his crocodile tears
He is not spineless when he is fighting for the left.
Bonehead gave up the only leverage he had on the Cromibus bill.
They only thing left are Kabuki Dances, Show Votes and Grandstanding.
The Coppertone Country Club Crony Capitalist?
Boehner is WORSE THAN SPINELESS, he’s an enabler of the progressive campaign to weaken and destroy America, its constitution, its traditions and its people. And THAT is what he will be remembered for and nothing more.
Can he turn around that impending legacy? Yes, that’s possible. Will he turn it around and change his ways/thinking? Probably not and that is a misfortune for his country. He’ll live to have a comfortable retirement and he may live long enough to realize what a cesspool he has helped create for his grandchildren to live in.
Well Boehner, it’s not so much that you have no spine at all, it’s that what little spine you do have..... is yellow.
I don’t suppose it would occur to this doofus that there might be a good reason for that.
Uh huh. Here's a guy in a thousand-dollar suit whose mug has been splashed all across the front pages with Pelosi, 0bama, and every other fat cat inside that sump of corruption named the Beltway, whose party just won a historic landslide and who responded by giving the losers $1.1 Trillion worth of everything they wanted, and he isn't establishment? God help us from anyone who is.
Boner you invertebrate KMA.
How about calling you Obamahole, then?
I defended Boner for a long time.
But he has never started to do his job, representing the people. He had (still has) a position that gives him a great opportunity to do a lot of good and make a good name for himself. Perhaps this is the msot frustrating aspect of Boner, he is wasting his opportunity.
Anyway, I wish him a long...and hopefully speedy...retirement....ASAP.
Ugggh. A speaker is meant to be a leader. He should be pushing an agenda. It's not about his voting record like some backbencher.
@-holes don’t have spines.
Therefore, you ARE spineless, Boner-head.
And the good news is Boehner is feeling the heat. :)
How about “cash Less”
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